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We re in the Mountains Not Over the Hill
Author | : Susan Alcorn |
Publsiher | : www.backpack45.com |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0936034025 |
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Humorous and informative stories from three dozen women who have hiked the Appalachian Trail and many other footpaths--their insight and practical wisdom should inspire men and women of all ages.
Hill Women
Author | : Cassie Chambers |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781984818935 |
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After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “Poverty is enmeshed with pride in these stories of survival.”—Associated Press Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842
Author | : John Charles Frémont |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433081825188 |
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Consists of Frémont's report only, without the plates, appendices, &c. included in the congressional editions of 1845.
The Tree on the Hill
Author | : Howard Phillips Lovecraft |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1675101485 |
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The story is written in first person. It depicts the main character going outside Hampden and finding a special tree. The tree makes him day dream about a big temple in a land with three suns. The temple was half-violet, half-blue. Some shadows attracted him into the inside. He thought he saw three flaming eyes watching him and he shouted twice and the vision was gone.Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction.He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the "Cthulhu Mythos," a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a "pantheon" of nonhuman creatures, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works typically had a tone of "cosmic pessimism," regarding mankind as insignificant and powerless in the universe.Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, and his works, particularly early in his career, have been criticized as occasionally ponderous, and for their uneven quality. Nevertheless, Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.
Views in India Chiefly Among the Himalaya Mountains
Author | : George Francis White |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z153684104 |
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A Walk in the Woods
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780385674546 |
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God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
Traditions of the Covenanters or Gleanings among the Mountains
Author | : Robert SIMPSON (of Sanquhar.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020133751 |
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